Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly from present and past, casting a fierc...(展开全部)

玛丽·盖茨基尔 Mary Gaitskill 著有短篇小说集Bad Behavior、长篇小说Two Girls, Fat and Thin，以及短篇小说集Because They Wanted To，此书曾获一九九八年“美国笔会/福克纳奖”提名。小说与散文散见《纽约客》杂志、《哈泼杂志》、《君子杂志》、《一九九三年美国短篇小说奖》，以及《一九九八年欧亨利奖小说集》。短篇小说《秘书》（Secretary）曾改编为同名电影（台湾中文片名为《怪咖情缘》）。曾获古根汉基金会研究奖金。现居纽约，并在雪城大学（Syracuse University）教授创作写作。

玛丽·盖茨基尔 Mary Gaitskill 著有短篇小说集Bad Behavior、长篇小说Two Girls, Fat and Thin，以及短篇小说集Because They Wanted To，此书曾获一九九八年“美国笔会/福克纳奖”提名。小说与散文散见《纽约客》杂志、《哈泼杂志》、《君子杂志》、《一九九三年美国短篇小说奖》，以及《一九九八年欧亨利奖小说集》。短篇小说《秘书》（Secretary）曾改编为同名电影（台湾中文片名为《怪咖情缘》）。曾获古根汉基金会研究奖金。现居纽约，并在雪城大学（Syracuse University）教授创作写作。

Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly from present and past, casting a fierc...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was the...(展开全部)

Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was the...(展开全部)

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)

The Clay Sanskrit Library has recently set out to change the scene by making available well-translated dual-language (English and Sanskrit) editions of popular Sanskritic texts for the public. The Buddhist monk Ashva*ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called...(展开全部)